Bern Prefers FLOSS at Robert Pogson

“A clear majority in the council of the Swiss city of Bern has voted for a switch to free and open source IT solutions. It instructs the city’s IT department to make future IT purchases platform and vendor neutral and to prefer using open source solutions. This way, the council wants to rid the city of IT vendor lock-in.”

see Majority in Bern council tells Swiss city to switch to open source | Joinup.

Of course, this is what every government and organization should do. It is so much more efficient to cooperate with the world in the development of good IT rather than being isolated and dependent on a few suppliers intent on maximizing profits. I recommend Debian GNU/Linux as a base for all your IT. Debian works cooperatively with the world to assemble powerful tools for every aspect of IT.

The Join-up site in Europe serves to inform and facilitate organizations using FLOSS. Bern has one of the lowest rates of usage of that other OS if you believe NetApplications but GNU/Linux should get a pop from this move.

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.

3 Responses to “Bern Prefers FLOSS”

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1 James Mandingo Dec 8th, 2012 at 11:11 am

And your wife prefers Mandingo. All is right with the world.
2 Robert Pogson Dec 8th, 2012 at 12:57 pm

Good-bye, James.
3 Lord Penguin Dec 9th, 2012 at 11:59 am

What a disgusting pig! I don’t envy you, Robert. Dealing with this troll scum is obviously a nasty business. These people must live a pathetic life.